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Al assads father, had always been a protagonist against israel and against the united states in the middle east. it has been the number one ally of iran in the arab world. the most important ally of russia in the middle east. and an exporter of oil to china and the number one purchaser of arms from russia. so syria has been in a league by itself. as also the first arab country to try to build an atomic weapon and has the largest cachet of chemical weapons in the world besides the united states a...

A nuclear power. they are. i mean, theyve detonated an atomic weapon and a couple times now and so, you know, the barn door is open on that one. >> and theyve reopened one of their nuclear facilities and peter king was talking about this just this morning. he went so far to say the united states has the right to take preemptive action if we think north korea is going to attack us. take a look. >> i dont want to be putting anything out there other than to say i dont think we necessarily have to w...

>> and, finally, chairman royce, the iran sanctions bill, do you think that that will get through congress? >> i do think so. i think that the members of the house and the senate on both sides of the aisle certainly are very, very concerned about the attempts to miniaturize a weapon, the attempts to develop a three stage icbm in iran, and at the same time the fact that the centrifuges, you know, continue to spin, and so in light of that, we have seen times in our history when sanctions really wo...

Torture was reprehensible, not to be used, but then i also said but suppose an extraordinary circumstance arises. you know that some horrible, horrible, horrible is about to happen. the other example people sometimes use is the presence of an atomic weapon which is about to be detonated. somebody knows where it is. theres still time to disarm it. what do you do in that circumstance? i think that moral dilemma is not easy to resolve, but i can see how under the pressure of circumstances and given...

No not at all. that bomb was 67 years ago. jenna: one of the nuclear experts that the government relies upon, according to the "associated press" says listen this diagram is just kind of thinking about things, its not really ao blueprint for what is to come. at least that is his take. what do you think about that. >> its not a blueprint after nuclear weapon, but nobody should have any illusions that the blueprints arent out there. when gaffe gave up his nuclear program we got documents with chin...

That nuclear watchdog group has been hacked by what appears to be iranian sources. and you have iran out with new submarines as well. this is constantly flooded into the media. how do we combat this not only through sanctions and policy but through this propaganda war that we are seeing in front of us as well? >> i think the iranians are trying to back the europeans and the obama administration off. they dont like the sanctions, they are causing economic pain but they are not affecting the nucle...

Jenna: you think the timeline leads to us 2014, some kind of tipping point. >> iran is not racing to build its first nuclear weapon, they are building a very broad nuclear program. they could race to get that first weapon and they could do it very quickly. jenna: ambassador bolton. thank you. jon: we are talking about powerball fever today, jenna. so many folks dreaming about what theyll buy with more than, well half a billion bucks, that is before the government gets its hands-on its share. if ...

Rates before the election. there just arent the votes on that. i think that could be a trial balloon that has been shot down by speaker john boehner and his lieutenants this morning. could there be a higher threshold possibly, maybe a million, maybe a little higher than that, that is quite possible. jon: the guessing game goes on, which side blinks. bob cusack in washington thank you. jenna: some sobering new evidence of irans dangerous nuclear ambitions. the "associated press" reporting on poss...

They recommended disciplinary action against 14doj employees, eric holder was largely vindicated. today in court the judge said allow the documents, the g.o.p. house members were seeking were actually tkpweufpbg out in that ig report. even the house lawyer said yes its better off now instead of going through the courts we settle this thing kind of play nice and get the information they are seeking. but they are seeking more information, they are going to do it in a different way. megyn: interest...

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